Interactivate: Standard Expectation

6 items total

Organization: Virginia Standards of Learning
Grade Band: 5th Grade
Standard Goal: Probability and Statistics

No expectation given for this objective.

Probability	Lesson: Students learn about probability by predicting the outcome of planned experiments and playing racing games.
Adjustable Spinner	Activity: Create a game spinner with variable sized sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities. Parameters: Sizes of sectors, number of sectors, number of trials.
Crazy Choices Game	Activity: Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once. Parameters: Type of probabilities, number of trials.
Directable Fire!!	Activity: Run a simulation of how a fire will spread through a stand of trees, learning about probability and chaos. Parameters: Probability that a tree will set fire to each of its eight neighbors.
Racing Game with One Die	Activity: Experiment with probability and "fairness" with this simulation where two players each roll a die, and the lucky player moves one step towards the finish. Parameters: what rolls win and how many steps to the finish line.
Spinner	Activity: Create a game spinner with one to twelve sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities. Parameters: Number of sectors, number of trials.